City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of January in the Fourteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
John Simpson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Allen
Wall< no role > , Jeffrey Sadler< no role > , Thomas Wickstead< no role > , Thomas Swan< no role > , John Hurt< no role > , Ralph
Chambers< no role > , Joseph Wilkinson< no role > , William Sherman< no role > , Alexander Youal< no role > , Frederick
Bock< no role > , Michael Fagan< no role > and James Bick< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Simpson< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Simpson< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Seventh day of January in the Year aforesaid, one End of a
certain Sash Line unto the Wooden Quarter in a certain Shed in the
Work Yard of John Bradley< no role > Sash maker situate in Long Acre in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the
other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and
therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself
of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said
John Simpson< no role > then and there died. and so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Simpson< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill
himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Allen Wall< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Allen Wall< no role > Forman